The epic finale to the Thunder collection: Thunder X3M – 16.000 samples of complete percussion insanity! It utterly reworks the earlier volumes and collects an enormous variety of new samples mixed in a brand new extremely intuitive percussion engine.
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About Thunder X3M
The idea behind the unique Thunder Collection was to seize distinctive instrument combos enjoying reside – on-set combination between timpani and toms, between Bulgarian tupans, snare drums and lots of extra. The collection was held in excessive regard and after some additional experiments with the second quantity, the third installment even featured a 15 males percussion ensemble recorded in an enormous corridor enjoying collectively!
THUNDER X3M takes all three earlier editions of the Thunder Collection and breathes new life to the pattern materials by implementing a strong engine that permits the consumer to control and map the samples. This, together with a large quantity of name new recorded samples, opens huge musical prospects for each composer on the market! The whole Thunder Collection has been recorded with a number of Dynamic layers (as much as 10) and Spherical Robins (as much as 27 per sound).
The brand new Thunder Engine
The idea behind the brand new Thunder engine is pretty easy – the keyboard vary is split into 12 zones that you’ll be able to assign totally different sounds to. After making the template of your selecting simply plug in and play – nothing else wanted!
Along with that the engine additionally lets you tweak particular person zones, in addition to the entire mapped ensemble patch with varied results, mic positions and two customized classic analog {hardware} chains. Combining these with the pure and natural recordings you will have most flexibility in terms of sound.
When you load up the Thunder X3M Ensemble Builder you robotically load all samples contained in the “Samples” listing. Nonetheless, the instrument is in-built such a approach that it truly retains all samples purged, until you load them up right into a zone. Because of this not solely you will have a single patch with all varieties of percussion you may want, however it is usually optimized and doesn’t damage your RAM sources in any approach!
The brand new Thunder X3M Engine options:
– 12 percussion zones – you may load up devices from totally different classes into 12 separate zones (Low ensembles, Excessive Ensembles, Ethnic Percussion, Epic metals, Sound Design Percussion, Distorted Percussion) and thus create your personal percussive template!
– Pitch knob – lets you regulate the pitch of the samples. Actually helpful to load a single instrument two occasions after which change the pitch of one of many zones. As an illustration – load up a solo Taiko low on zones 1 and a couple of, then lower the pitch of zone 2 all the best way to the left. And now your have even thicker sound of a taiko – make sure to flip in your sub speaker for much more awesomeness!
– Transient controls – transient assault and maintain work like a compressor; the assault amps up the start of the wave file, whereas the maintain can enhance or lower the pattern tail. These are simply PERFECT for getting even punchier sound!
– Separate quantity and EQ controls for every zone!
– SAVE AND LOAD capabilities that will let you simply change templates between tasks!
– Built-in HELP file
– Three microphone positions – Shut, Decca, Corridor
– Two customized classic analog {hardware} chains, (NYC Compression and Sub-Bass Enhancement), you may seamlessly mix in to reinforce the sounds
